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2006-09-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Mike 2006-09-29 06:44|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Build toilets for racoons.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-09-29 07:04|| 2006-09-29 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Let me think deer, geese, raccoons...How did we formerly control these populations? How did we do it?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-29 08:00|| 2006-09-29 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn... I guess bears (et cetera) do shit in the woods!

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2006-09-29 08:26|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2006-09-29 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Now we all know.

Posted by GK 2006-09-29 08:34|| 2006-09-29 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 "unnaturally high populations of deer, geese and raccoons living in modern suburbs and depositing their waste there"

Liberal dumbasses. That's what rifles are for.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-29 08:50|| 2006-09-29 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Jerky, paté, hats. Problem solved.

Posted by ed 2006-09-29 09:09|| 2006-09-29 09:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Around here the extensive county parks systems keep professional hunters on retainer to thin the deer herds to the carrying capacity of the land. They have to keep this fact quiet, though, of the Bambi squads will start fussing. Apparently too, a neighborhood can hire one of these pros to do something about a local excess of critters, in areas where human density is below a certain limit, and where the laws forbid amateurs from shooting off guns.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-29 09:14|| 2006-09-29 09:14|| Front Page Top

#8 TW, you just reminded me of one of my childhood experiences. There was distemper in the dog population when I was 14. I was walking home one day, when I came upon a police car and a small crowd of onlookers, most of them kids. The cop was pulling on a rope that had a beagle under a car on the other end. The beagle would not more, and started to growl fiercely. The cop, a gun wielding professional, pulled his weapon. He pulled the beagle from under the car, and the dog lunged at him. He fired 3 fast rounds into the beagle. The kids were within 6 feet of them at the time. I just walked away shaking my head.

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-29 09:56|| 2006-09-29 09:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Nature, why does it hate us?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-09-29 10:02|| 2006-09-29 10:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Gaia shit's herself? Who knew?

Posted by tu3031 2006-09-29 12:43|| 2006-09-29 12:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Some communities actually hired bowhunters to combat this. Makes sense, no rifle noise scaring the pussy-foots and arrows fired from an elevated position have a much shorter max range & trajectory. I've never had the chance to do any "suburban bowhunting" yet but it would prolly be fun.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-09-29 13:28|| 2006-09-29 13:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Separately, the Blue Ridge Mountains are apparently blue because of smog-like emissions from certain of the trees native to the region. This fact was established by atmospheric testing done by a PhD or post-doc in the latter half of the 1990s -- I wrote to him at the time to find out which trees, so that the PTA shouldn't plant those on our school's little nature preserve, but he never wrote back.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-29 16:50|| 2006-09-29 16:50|| Front Page Top

#13 And do not leave off your list the necessary cleanup of elephant dung in and around waterholes in Africa. There are fecal coliform colonies there that have been known to carry away unattended children.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-09-29 17:02|| 2006-09-29 17:02|| Front Page Top

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